Meeting
Abstract Number: 29
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommends against the use of Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) for determining patient satisfaction with physicians, however, hospital administrators often use HCAHPS scores as one metric for determining physician incentives. Such use of HCAHPS likely results from its easy availability and lack of […]
Abstract Number: 297
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Accurate, high-quality data is critical for work in quality improvement, research, and clinical operations. With an electronic health record (EHR), vast amounts of observational data are collected on patients every day. This data can provide actionable knowledge if an institution can successfully extract and analyze it. At our institution, which adopted the Epic EHR […]